03-12-2018, 10:20 AM
Hello everyone,
yesterday I once again noted that Assetto Corsa's fuel consumption seems to be quite off (at least in the GT cars - can't tell about the LMP cars). I think, in the 20 minute sprint races this is no problem since neither tyres nor fuel levels are going to effect lap times too much.
However, I did the Euro 1 hour race yesterday evening and went with a little less than 70 litres (I think it was 67 litres including the refuelling). In reality however, GTE cars usually can go for about one hour between stops for fuel, if I'm not completely mistaken, due to the following calculation: At Le Mans GTE cars can go about 14 laps on one tank and one lap is about 3:55 Minutes give or take a few seconds. Of course Le Mans has quite a bit more full throttle percentage than Brands Hatch, so we can expect little longer driving times there. If I remember correctly, the Porsche has a 120 litre tank so based on my fuel consumption we could go at least 1:30 hours with that much fuel, which seems a bit odd.
The bigger problem with this in my opinion is the fact that the weight difference between a car with fuel for a whole 1 hour race and one with fuel for a race with refuelling during the pitstop is nearly the same, thus there is no real difference in possible lap times on both strategies. If the difference was bigger, going for a refuel might be as more rewarding strategy since longer refuelling time would allow a tyre change with a lesser (or maybe no) time loss. Overall I believe if the fuel comsumption was "fixed" by setting it to 150% or something, at least for the 1 hour races, other strategies apart from taking a one litre splash and going for the whole race length on medium tyres might be more feasible.
yesterday I once again noted that Assetto Corsa's fuel consumption seems to be quite off (at least in the GT cars - can't tell about the LMP cars). I think, in the 20 minute sprint races this is no problem since neither tyres nor fuel levels are going to effect lap times too much.
However, I did the Euro 1 hour race yesterday evening and went with a little less than 70 litres (I think it was 67 litres including the refuelling). In reality however, GTE cars usually can go for about one hour between stops for fuel, if I'm not completely mistaken, due to the following calculation: At Le Mans GTE cars can go about 14 laps on one tank and one lap is about 3:55 Minutes give or take a few seconds. Of course Le Mans has quite a bit more full throttle percentage than Brands Hatch, so we can expect little longer driving times there. If I remember correctly, the Porsche has a 120 litre tank so based on my fuel consumption we could go at least 1:30 hours with that much fuel, which seems a bit odd.
The bigger problem with this in my opinion is the fact that the weight difference between a car with fuel for a whole 1 hour race and one with fuel for a race with refuelling during the pitstop is nearly the same, thus there is no real difference in possible lap times on both strategies. If the difference was bigger, going for a refuel might be as more rewarding strategy since longer refuelling time would allow a tyre change with a lesser (or maybe no) time loss. Overall I believe if the fuel comsumption was "fixed" by setting it to 150% or something, at least for the 1 hour races, other strategies apart from taking a one litre splash and going for the whole race length on medium tyres might be more feasible.